Word: shying
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...only killed men who were armed and firing at us." Though the building has been through several incarnations in past years-from political party branch under Saddam to an office space to what is said to have been a school-local leaders claim it is now a hussaniyah, a Shi'ite mosque,and should have had protected status...
...matter how bad the sectarian violence gets in Iraq, politicians in Washington love to tout the flowering of democracy in Saddam Hussein's former dictatorship. But not all the fruits of Iraqi democracy are to Washington's taste - the Bush Administration has reportedly told the Shi'ite bloc that dominates Iraq's elected legislature that President Bush opposes its nomination of Ibrahim al-Jaafari to a second term as Prime Minister...
...elected government. Even as it tries to cajole the elected leaders to agree on a national unity government, the U.S. is engaged in ongoing talks with commanders of the Sunni insurgency and plans talks on the future of Iraq with Iran, which retains significant influence over the main Shi'ite parties. Now it appears Washington has also reached out to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - Iraq's leading Shi'ite clerical authority and the country's most influential figure - for support in its effort to block Jaafari, though? Sistani has consistently refused, since the fall of Saddam, to meet with...
...Such multi-pronged diplomacy may be necessary to stabilize Iraq, but wooing any one party inevitably alienates another. When the U.S. talks to the insurgents and calls for greater Sunni share of power, Shi'ite leaders accuse Washington of rewarding terrorism; when it moves to talk with Tehran, the Sunnis in Iraq and in friendly Arab capitals are incensed at the idea of Iran's influence in Iraq being formalized. As long as U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is able to balance the fallout and bruised feelings, the strategy may appear viable. But the Shi'ites constitute almost two thirds...
...campaign against Jaafari has the backing of both the Kurds and Sunnis, who believe he is either unwilling or unable to rein in Shi'ite militias and would prefer to see the job go to Jaafari's rival for the Shi'ite nomination, Adel Abdel Mahdi of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq . It's not as if Jaafari was even the unanimous choice of the Shi'ite bloc - he won the nomination by only one vote, and then only because of the backing of radical cleric and militia leader Moqtada Sadr. But once the Kurds...